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Cooking

Another Perfect Cooking Day…

27.01.2012

I love to buy food seasonally because it makes whatever is in season feel like it’s a treat. I found blood oranges at the market today. For some reason they taste like cranberries sweetened with orange juice to me. I adore them. And though I eat them out of hand, I also love to use [...]

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Mmm, Mmm, Soup…

28.12.2011

The other thing I love about winter (besides getting to knit more) is cooking. I hate standing over the stove in the summer. But come the cooler weather I get my cooking mojo back. Today is the perfect day for soup. There’s a cold wind, dark clouds, and the threat of some kind of precipitation—though [...]

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How Does My Garden Grow?

23.01.2011

About this time every winter I start dreaming of gardens. Flowers, yes. But mostly vegetable gardens. Then I remember I have no outside water source anymore. Two plumbers later, and two excuses as to why the old faucet can’t be fixed (not to mention two bills just for them showing up to tell me no), [...]

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Salads=Characters?

17.08.2009

When summer shows its steamy side, I hate to cook. It’s just too hot. So I turn to cold meals, like salads. Sure, there’s your standard tossed lettuce salad, but they’re like flat characters—just not enough there. I tend to like kitchen-sink salads where I throw in anything. That may be fine and well for [...]

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